Bruno G. Bara

Bruno G. Bara is a MD, with a PhD in Medical Psychology, presently professor of Psychology at the University of Turin (Italy). His scientific career developed within the framework of cognitive science (Cognitive Science, Psychology Press 1995). He worked with Philip Johnson-Laird at Cambridge (UK), studying syllogistic inference, and then with John Searle at Berkeley, studying communication acts.

In 1993 he founded the Center for Cognitive Science at the University and Polytechnic of Turin (Italy), which his since then became an influential school in the domain of cognitive pragmatics. His research interest focus on the mental processes underlying communication (Cognitive Pragmatics, Mit Press 2010) through different methods: behavioral experiments in healthy children and adults, and in clinical population (e.g. Alzheimer’s disease and traumatic brain and injuries). In recent years, his main interest has been in social cognitive neuroscience, In particular, he has been working on the neural bases of social interaction in neurotypical and clinical populations (such as people with autism and schizophrenia).

He is also a cognitive therapist in the costructivistic vein; he founded three schools of cognitive psychotherapy in northern Italy, focused on increasing the clients’ awareness about themselves through the client/therapist relation.

Bruno Bara lives in the Riviera, in a beautiful house viewing the Mediterranean sea. He has two daughters, with whom he travels the world.